What Gets in the Way of Setting Healthy Goals?

It may not come as a surprise that more than two-thirds of New Year’s resolutions fail each year. The question is why? Although the answer is...

Keeping Stress Away From Our Children

Watching developments on the news these days is sometimes distressing for all of us. In fact, it’s important to recognize that if it’s impacting us,...

Why Divorce Counseling is Always a Good Idea

Divorce is one of the most stressful and disrupting experiences we can go through. Even when a couple has no doubt in their minds that divorce is...

Play Therapy for Children

Therapy has benefits for everyone. For adults, therapy can help us process unresolved issues, learn to build healthier relationships, and cultivate...

John Gottman Knows Marriage (And He Knows Divorce, Too)

According to Dr. Gottman, the biggest indicator of a couples’ success is not whether they argue, it's how they argue. Conflict is inevitable in...

SAD: When It’s More Than Just “The Winter Blues”

What is Seasonal Affective Disorder? Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, is a type of depression that comes on with the shorter days and colder...

This Year, Give Yourself the Gift of Boundaries

What are boundaries? Boundaries are simply dividing lines, physical or metaphorical dividers that say “over here” is what I am comfortable with, and...

How to Spice Up Your Love Life, Gottman-Style

Drs. John and Julie Gottman are world-renowned for their research on marriage and relationships. After more than four decades of study, one thing...

Couples Therapy: Why You Should See a Specialist

At The Relationship Therapy Center, we wholeheartedly believe in the importance of working with a couples therapy specialist. Couples therapy is...

How To Be Happy

What is the secret to happiness? It’s a question we all want the answer to. But happiness looks different for different people; there is no...

5 Things to Focus on When You Are Single

Being single is an opportunity to invest in ourselves. Our single seasons are the times we get to be introspective, to reintroduce ourselves …. to...

Let’s Talk About Emotional Flooding

What is emotional flooding? Emotional flooding is a psychological and physiological response in the body that happens when we become overwhelmed, or...

Communication for a Healthy Relationship

Good communication is key to a healthy relationship. It’s the glue that holds the pieces together, the oil that keeps the engine running. But here’s...